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29 Cards in this Set
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Neanderthal sites in what is now Israel (e.g., Kebara and Amud) clearly predate sites in the same region containing modern-looking hominids (e.g., Skhul and Qafzeh). |
False
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Some Neanderthal skulls have cranial capacities that are larger than those of the average modern human.
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True
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Stress markers in the teeth that reflect growth disruption due to poor diets or to poor health are called dental hypoplasias.
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True
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Burial of the dead with grave goods is attributed to:
A) Homo neanderthalensis B) Homo sapiens C) Homo erectus D) both A and B |
D. Both A and B
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Partial skulls of two adults and of one child, dating to around 160,000 yBP and exhibiting mostly modern human features, come from: |
B. Herto, Ethiopia
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Damage to Neandertal skeletons often occurs in bones from the upper body, mimicking injuries often seen in modern day:
A) rodeo riders B) construction workers C) body builders D) university professors |
A. rodeo riders
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Shovel-shaped incisors are one of the most distinctive features of people from:
A) East Asia and the Americas B) South Africa C) Australia D) India |
A. East Asia and the Americas
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The Denisova fossils likely:
A) interbred with Homo erectus B) share a common ancestor with Neandertals C) were isolated to the point of extinction D) looked very much like Neandertals |
B. Share a common ancestor with Neandertals
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A hominid fossil with a long, low skull, projecting face and occipital bone, and large nasal aperture is likely: |
C. to be classified as having pre-modern characteristics
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The stable forms of carbon used in isotopic analyses to reconstruct diet are 12C and 14C.
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False
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Over the last 10,000 years has Earth's popilation grown three orders of magnitude, from a few million people to over six billion today. |
True
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With modern Homo sapiens' appearance in the late Pleistocene, human biological evolution basically stopped.
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True
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In the late 1960s, Lee and DeVore argued that South African food-foraging people actually had more leisure time than early farmers.
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True
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The invasion of spongy bone into the eye sockets as a response to anemia is called:
A) Hyperosteitis B) Trabeculitis C) Orbital arthritis D) Cribra orbitalia |
D. Cribra Orbitalia
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As discussed in lecture, the rapid chance(s) that has impacted the human species was/were: |
D. All of the above
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The origin of maize is located in:
A) Southwest Asia B) Southern Africa C) Southern Mexico D) India |
C. Southern Mexico
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Bones showing the impact of this group of diseases (including vernereal syphilis, endemic syphilis, and yaws) are found in Holocene populations in the American Midwest and Southeast. |
A. Treponematoses
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What effect did the advent of agriculture have on the level of interpersonal violence seen in the archaeological record?
A) Violence increased B) Violence decreased C) Violence stayed about the same D) It is difficult or even impossible to determine the level of violence from only the bones |
A. Violence Increased
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The cross section of a long bone reveals a bon that is perfectly round. This suggest that: |
C. The bone will have equal strength in all directions
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the color of our skin is likely still an area in which we are undergoing biological evolution.
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True
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The United States will be relatively unaffected by the impacts of global warming.
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False
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Allergic reactions to food are a signal that the body is responding to something perceived as a foreign antigen.
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True
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Parents with asthma are more likely to have children with allergies.
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True
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Endotoxins appear important in the development of a health immune system.
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True
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There is no evidence that natural selection continues to play a role in our biology. |
False
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Reduction of biodiversity:
A) has few negative impacts for humans B) reduces our ability to produce food C) cannot be slowed D) all of the above |
B. reduces our ability to produce food
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Climate scientists predict a shifting pattern of precipitation with: |
A. Increasing dryness in the American Southwest and Midwest.
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Evidence for continues biological evolution in humans and in other organisms includes all of the following EXCEPT:
A) increasing numbers of antibiotic-resistant strains of tuberculosis B) high frequencies of the sickle-cell trait in malaria-endemic areas C) technological solutions for coping with climate change D) Antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria in hospitals |
C. technological solutions for coping with climate change
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Climate changes bring about illness and death because of: |
D. All of the above
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